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Posted on Fri, Oct. 23, 2009

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Letters to the editor on Visioneering, Limbaugh, public option, requiring insurance

Visioneering helps all area cities

After recently visiting Chattanooga, Tenn., with Visioneering Wichita, I would say the experience was helpful in engaging people living in Derby, Goddard, Rose Hill, Wichita, Andover, Bel Aire and other areas of our four-county metro area.

The Visioneering Wichita effort is all about regional economic development. In all candor, none of our cities can be successful without a strong metro-area economy. And a strong economy requires diversification and a strong downtown.

Derbyites often work and play in Wichita. As the second-largest city in the metro area, we recognize that planning and visioning efforts are better if Derby is involved.

KATHY SEXTON

City manager

Derby

Limbaugh's truth

I read "Limbaugh's sword" (Oct. 18 Letters to the Editor) and was grieved to the quick. The writer's analogy of "what goes around comes around" was way off.

Limbaugh was not Swift-boated by anyone. He was ganged up on by hateful hypocrites. Neither was he tripped up or fooled in any way by anyone. Frankly, I think he knew what was coming but hoped they wouldn't succeed.

However, the letter was correct about a couple things. The other buyers and the NFL decided to take the path of least resistance by excluding Limbaugh. And there was no government intervention or socialism at work. Instead, it was the same politically correct, self-righteous crowd that has had its cloak of sin removed, by Limbaugh, many times and exposed. For when such hypocrites have the truth told on them, they desperately seek ways of taking revenge, however unjust it may be.

Limbaugh does not live by the sword — unless you are talking about the "sword of truth," which produces the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

Limbaugh loves Jesus, the Son of God, who is Truth. Therefore, I will love him. Take that, hypocrites, and swallow hard.

JAMES E. SULLIVAN

Augusta

Don't force

I've tried to be publicly quiet about the health care debate. But after reading "What's wrong with requiring insurance?" (Oct. 17 Letters to the Editor), I felt I must respond.

The writer asked why we aren't upset about the requirement of auto insurance. I must remind him that driving a car is a privilege, not a right. I don't have to drive a car. Living in this country, however, is my right.

If the government forces me to purchase health insurance and charges me an exorbitant fee if I don't, my rights are being taken away. Taking away my rights is what is making me most angry.

In addition, I don't like to buy car insurance, but I do so because I feel it is essential. It is also a lot cheaper than most health insurance packages. Personally, as a very healthy adult, I don't feel I should be forced to buy insurance that I most likely will not need.

GARY SCHMIDT

Wichita

Believe in public

Members of Congress need to quit being held hostage by the insurance industry, which obviously "bought" them with past contributions. Give the public what it wants — a public insurance option. How many heinous acts must the insurance industry commit before members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, do what the public elected them to do? They need to quit fooling themselves and start believing in the public again.

DONN LENTZ

Wichita